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Have You Ever Wondered Why We Pay Tax?

In life there are many big questions. Is there a God? Where did we come from? Is there other forms of life on other planets? This question isn’t quite in the same bracket as these big questions, and is more about the way that we behave without even wondering. Have you ever wondered why we [...]

People On The Dole Richer Than Students

A friend of mine made me aware of a rather interesting fact, and that is that people on benifits, such as unemployed people are richer than students.
The thought made me laugh. How can some of the people on the dole, who have no ambition to work, have more money in their pocket than some students [...]

Why Call Students Tax Dodgers?

When I was a student I would go as far as saying that people who had jobs used to pretty much tut at me as a student because I was apparently a ‘tax dodger’.
The uneducated morons who said this to me literally had no idea what they were talking about as tax is not worked [...]

Your Salary After Tax & Other Deductions

Working out what salary you want to be on can be done very easily with a tax calculator on the internet. I have used it in the past to work out how much I want to be on after all deductions and so I know what figure will be ending up in my account come [...]

Big Question - At What Salary Should You Have To Pay Tax?

I had an interesting conversation with one of my friends this weekend about salary. Neither of us are particularly driven by money, we both can appreciate it. But do not live our lives thriving to have a large number in our banks.
The big question of ‘At What Salary Should You Have To Pay Tax?’ came [...]

Escape tax frustration by playing Mecca Bingo

Filling in your tax forms is a really frustrating bit of business. If you aren’t really keen on admin at the best of times then doing your tax forms is likely is likely to be the sort of tax that you truly dread. That’s why you deserve to treat yourself to a bit of entertainment [...]

Council tax 2011

The new bills have been sent out again and if you’re like me you and pay by direct debit, it’s been nice to have the last 2 months off paying a bill.
Also, like me I pay £95 a month which seems extotionate in my eyes , especially when I have do wash [...]

Entrepreneurs helped by tax reliefs in 2011 Budget

George Osborne has announced in this year budget that tax incentive schemes have been introduced to help small business investors and Entrepreneurs step onto the ladder of success.
“Company owners will benefit from a doubling of the lifetime limit on “entrepreneurs’ relief” to £10m from April 6. The relief limits capital gains tax (CGT) to 10pc [...]

Managers resign during difficult recession

Last year saw a greater number of resignations by company managers than in the same period a year before. In the 12 months leading up to January 2010 a survey by The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) discovered that 225,600 (4.7%) quit their jobs, compared to 4.5% in the 12 months prior to this.
This comes despite [...]

BA strike back on

After it was cancelled at the last minute due to being illegally voted upon, the previous BA strike had little impact. The strike was originally set to take place during the Christmas break of 2009. However, BA bosses have once again got their hands full as the cabin crew have once again vote for a [...]

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